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Manhattan is a 1979 romantic comedy film which tells about a divorced forty-something whose ex-wife is writing a tell-all book about their relationship. He is having an affair with a high school girl, and falls for his best friend's mistress. It stars Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy , Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep and Anne Byrne .The movie was written by Allen and Marshall Brickman , and directed by Allen. Allen insisted that this movie be shown in its proper aspect ratio when it was released on video. As a result, all copies of the movie on video are letterboxed, the first video to be released in such a format. The film is shot in black and white. The music is by George Gershwin.
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Mariel Hemingway) and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. The film is consistently on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films and was #46 on American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Laughs. In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film RegistryThe National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. The board, established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, was reauthorized in 1992.
AuteuristThe Auteur Theory is a way of reading and appraising films through the imprint of an auteur ( French: author), usually meant to be the director. In the 1954 essay Une certaine tendence du cinema francais Francois Truffaut coined the phrase "la politique d film critic Andrew SarrisAndrew Sarris is a film critic and a leading proponent of the Auteur theory of criticism. He is generally credited with popularising this theory in America. For many years he wrote for The Village Voice, and it was during this part of his career that he w notably praised Manhattan as "the only truly great AmericaThe word America has several meanings: Geographical and political The United States of America. America a small town in the Netherlands. Amerika a small town in Saxony, Germany America, Cambridgeshire a place in the United Kingdom America North, Central,n movie of the 1970sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 Events and trends."
1979 films
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